Monday, 31 December 2012

It is also imperative to launch a powerful struggle against revisionism in the literary sphere. As the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said, revisionism and the Western way of life are cousins. It is natural that those who follow revisionism introduce the Western way of life, and those who are imbued with the Western way of life follow revisionism. Today, revisionism goes under various names, but all of them are only varieties of bourgeois ideology. They are little different in that, as servants of imperialism, they open door to imperialism’s ideological and cultural infiltration, and play the role of its mouthpiece. This can be seen clearly in the acts of the betrayers of revolution, who are introducing at random the corrupt reactionary art and literature and the capitalist way of life that paralyze the revolutionary spirit of the people and make them mental cripples, and quickly modelling art and literature on the bourgeois and “Western” pattern under the cloak of “liberalization.” They advertise this as if it were ideological emancipation. Introduction of bourgeois ideology and culture, which praise the oppression and exploitation of man by man and make people mental cripples, can by no means be an ideological emancipation.The reactionary nature of revisionist literature is also expressed in rejecting the Party spirit, the working-class spirit and the popular spirit.Modern revisionists do not draw a line between the revolutionary literature of the working class and the reactionary literature of the bourgeoisie; they advocate cosmopolitan literature that transcends social class. They maintain that the class spirit is not necessary at all in literature.The ideological hotbed of revisionist literature is bourgeois ideology. Because it is based on this ideology, it is no different in its essence from bourgeois literature. Both conventional revisionism and modern revisionism scheme to make working-class literature degenerate into bourgeois literature. Conventional revisionists played the role of a guide for introducing bourgeois literature invisibly under the guise of socialism, whereas modern revisionists have revealed their true colours, openly claiming bourgeois restoration and opening the door to the imperialists.The so-called “supraclass literature” and “cosmopolitan literature” the revisionists advocate in an attempt to paralyze the social function of literature as a weapon of the class struggle is merely a smokescreen to hide their reactionary nature of betraying the interests of the working class.

After assuming state power, Khrushchev weakened the function of the dictatorship of the state as a weapon of the class struggle. As a
result, socialism could not be defended in the Soviet Union. Since
socialism collapsed there and the Soviet Union itself was broken up,
those who schemed against Soviet power in the past and their descendants
have become parvenus, and those who fought in defence of Soviet
power and their descendants have become beggars and unemployed.
Historical lessons show that for a working-class party to neglect class
education and abandon class principles amounts to digging its own grave.
We are now defending socialism and conducting the revolution and
construction in direct confrontation with US imperialism. We are waging
what could be called a war without gunfire. We should get ready to wage a
bloody struggle should the enemy attack us, and we must win the fight
against the US imperialists by any means

............ We must entertain no illusions about US
imperialism. We must not make concessions or retreat in the
confrontation with the US imperialists, but set our face against them.KIM JONG IL

Again at the request from many friends of the DPRK we refute the accusation smade against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by a so-called academic expert Brian Myers in his book the "Cleanest Race ". Myers teaches at a south Korean university and is a contributor to the imperialist press of the US.
Myers's comes out with absurd arguments about the DPRK in order to smear it and sling mud. His book claims that the DPRK is based on extreme racial nationalism and this is somehow rooted in Japanese fascism. This is a most profound insult to the DPRK and its supreme leadership. As everyone knows that the DPRK was born of the struggle to free the country from Japanese imperialism. Many anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters fell in the fight against
Japanese fascism . Indeed the great leader President Kim Il Sung lost many family members in the struggle against Japanese imperialism and fascism, his father, mother, uncle, younger brother and cousin. How on earth could the DPRK be based on something that its founding father fought against so hard for 20 years.
Japanese imperialism did a great deal of damage in Korea and was hated and rejected by all Korean people as the great leader president Kim Il Sung said
" the Japanese imperialist marauders harshly exploited and repressed the
Korean people. They considered ours an "inferior nation", and allowed no Korean
to participate in the management of factories, enterprises and state
establishments. The Japanese imperialists took under their wings only
a handful of pro-Japanese elements and traitors to the nation who, divorced from
the people, had become their faithful stooges. They tried to destroy
our national culture with its 5,000-year old history, and imposed upon our
nation the Japanese language, Japanese customs, Japanese culture and the
Japanese religion called "Shintoism", for the purpose of paralysing the national
consciousness of the Korean people. With the liberation of our
country from Japanese imperialist rule in August 1945, the days of insult and
slavery, the bitterness of which penetrated our nation to the bone, came to an
end and the wide road to a new life was opened before the Korean people."
(KIM IL SUNG " The Political Situation in North Korea 21st April 1948)
It is quite inconceivable that the DPRK would be in any way influenced by an ideology that regarded Korean's as an inferior nation.
When Korea was liberated in 1945 as a result of the armed struggle led by the great leader President Kim Il Sung he stated that one of the main tasks confronting the Korean people was to eliminate all traces of Japanese
imperialism
"At
present, the Korean revolution is at a stage where it must sweep away
the survivals of Japanese imperialism and feudalism and build a new,
democratic society, that is, at the stage of anti-imperialist,
anti-feudal democratic revolution."(KIM IL SUNG "On the Question of the National United Front" 22 December 1945)

Furthermore he stated 'that the
general ideological mobilization campaign for nation building was a
great ideological transformation to eliminate all degenerate and
decadent customs and attitudes to life, a leftover from Japanese
imperi­alism, fully develop the spirit and features, morality and
fighting efficiency required of the workers of a new and democratic
Korea, and create whole­some and vibrant national stamina. He
instructed that this campaign be con­ducted by the methods of
ideological struggle and ideological education in close combination
with the people’s practical struggle to build the new country.'

(KIM IL SUNG CONDENSED BIOGRAPHY 2001).

In the DPRK all traces of Japanese rule were obliterated. However in south Korea the US occupiers made the former collaborators of Japanese imperialism their collaborators and gave them high positions. One of them was Park Chung Hee the military fascist dictator of the 60s and 70s who was a lieutenant in the Japanese Army (his daughter Park Geun Hye is now the chief executive of south Korea). In south Korea laws such as the repressive "NationalSecurity Law" are modelled on the old Japanese colonial laws . It is south Korea which has been experienced several decades of fascist rule both civilian and military . Ironically this is where Mr Myers is teaching and receiving a salary (we wonder just how much he is paid by the south Korean puppets).from the south Korean fascist state. One wonders how he can have the face to talk about fascism.

Myer's argument is a clumsy and intellectual fraudulent which actually equates 'nationalism' or chauvinism in imperialist countries with the anti-imperialist revolutionary nationalism of oppressed countries. Thus in the twisted world view of Mr Myers the victim is seen as the same as the aggressor.

In today's world it is actually US imperialism that represents a form of fascism or international dictatorship as it tries to impose its will on the world through its so-called "New World Order " and its "coca-cola-isation and "McDonald-isation " which tries to obliterate the culture and national identities of other countries. The US imperialists seek to 'globalise' the world and create a world state. The DPRK is one of the few countries to stand up to this and should be applauded.

The idea of Mr Myers on the DPRK being somehow rooted in Japanese fascism is also a modern form of the old Cold War myth created by the ideologists of the CIA that somehow communism and fascism are the same.

Myers tries to tar the DPRK with the brush of chauvinism and racial nationalism.However the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il made it clear that this was not the case

" We
should distinguish
clearly between true nationalism that loves the
nation and
defends its interests and bourgeois nationalism that
advocates
the interests of the bourgeois class. Bourgeois
nationalism
reveals itself as national egoism, national exclusivism
and big-
power chauvinism in the relationship between countries and
nations; it is reactionary in that it creates antagonism and
disagreement between countries and nations, and checks the
development of friendly relations between the various peoples
of the
world."

Moreover "the excellence of our nation that we emphasise has nothing in common with with racism or national chauvinism. We do not assert that Korean's biological constitution is more developed than those of other races. Defining the superiority of a nation according to biological or ethnic characeristics is the practice of reactionary bourgeois'ethnology"('KIM JONG IL "Let Us Highly Display the Korean-Nation First Spirit 28 December 1989) and"Reactionary racism and national chauvinism which were used by the imperialists as ideological instruments of aggression and domination have been rejected by progressive humanity.....our nation first idea which is thoroughly opposed to reactionary racism, national chauvinism and cosmopolitanism not only values the the good traits of different nations but also respects the independence of other nations"(KIM JONG IL "Let Us Highly Display the Korean-Nation First Spirit 28 December 1989).In the DPRK there are some non-Korean residents living there notably Joe Dresnock the US defector. There are some mixed race people in the DPRK. Leader Kim Jong Il strongly argued against any form of discrimination againstmixed race people in the DPRK. Non Koreans are permitted to obtain DPRKnationality through the DPRK nationality law. The DPRK has a very proud internationalist record. It has assisted many liberation struggles throughout the world and given material assistance to some countries. Foreign guests to the DPRK always receive a warm welcome.This the reality of the DPRK . Myers's book draws heavily on DPRK novels and also DPRK comic books aimed at teenagers. Has any tried to do an analysis of US foreign policy or US society using "Superman " or "Batman " comics or maybe Americancomputer games ? At the end of the day "The Cleanest Race " is a poorly researched book . It is the worst kind of bourgeois academic falsification and slander. One guesses thatMr Myers has to serve the people paying his salary i.e the south Koreanauthorities .UK KFAASSPUKJISGE

Peace
is very valuable for our Party and the government of the DPRK that are
making efforts to attain the general goal of building a thriving
nation and improving the people’s living standards. But, more valuable
for us are the nation’s dignity and the country’s independence.

In
order to reliably safeguard the dignity and independence of our
Republic and assure genuine peace and the country’s security, all the
officers and men of the KPA should firmly defend our Party’s cause of
building a thriving nation by force of arms, always preserving its
revolutionary nature and maintaining full combat readiness.

(Let us
march forward dynamically toward final victory, holding higher the
banner of Songun! April 15 2012)

The
effort to build a thriving socialist country is accompanied by a
serious class struggle to eliminate all that are hostile and
non-socialist. Party organizations should ensure that the
law-enforcement organs discharge their sacred mission and duty by
staunchly safeguarding the socialist system and the gains of the
revolution and reliably defending people’s lives, property and security.

(Let Us Brilliantly
Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding the Great
Comrade Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary
of Our Party " 6th April 2012)

Efforts
should be directed to holding fast to the socialist principles in the
economic work and enhancing the sense of responsibility and role of
working people, undertakers of production and construction, so as to
increase production to the maximum.

(Let Us Brilliantly
Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding the Great
Comrade Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary
of Our Party " 6th April 2012)

The
Korean revolution was a serious political struggle, a class struggle,
against imperialism, dominationism, sycophancy, dogmatism and
revisionism, and an unprecedentedly complicated and arduous struggle
that could not be won by means of the existing formula or methods. Free
from the past, stained with sycophancy and dogmatism, Kim Il Sung,
in the whole course of leading the revolution, regarded independence
as its lifeline and solved all the problems arising in the revolution
and construction in our own way and in conformity with the demands of
our revolution, the interests of our people and the actual situation of
our country. By consistently holding fast to the principle of
independence, he built a powerful driving force of our revolution,
smashed at every step the counterrevolutionary offensive of the
imperialists and reactionaries and the interventionist schemes of the
“Leftist” and Rightist opportunists, and led to victory two
revolutionary wars, two rounds of reconstruction, two stages of social
revolution and socialist construction. He continuously developed the
relationship with foreign parties and countries also based on the
principle of independence. In this way, he highly exalted the external
prestige and dignity of our Party and our state, and rendered a great
contribution to accomplishing the cause of anti-imperialist
independence, the cause of socialism.

(The Great Kim Il Sung
Is the Eternal Leader of Our Party and Our People April 20, 2012)

Socialism
of our style centred on the masses is a genuine socialism where they
are the masters of the country and society and everything in the country
and society serves them; it is an invincible socialism as it has
struck its roots deep in the life and living of our people. When
socialism collapsed in several countries of the world in the previous
century, the imperialist reactionaries made a big fuss about the “end”
of socialism, but socialism of our style is here to stay even in the
worldwide political turmoil and further, it is bringing about
epoch-making changes in all the political, military, economic and
cultural fields.

Our socialism is an invincible socialism, in which the leader, the Party and the masses are united single-heartedly.

(The Great Kim Il Sung
Is the Eternal Leader of Our Party and Our People Treatise Published
to Mark the Centenary of the Birth of President Kim Il Sung April 20, 2012)

Counter
provocations with an immediate counteroffensive, and an aggressive war
with a war of justice for the country’s reunification–this is our
principled stand and unshakable will.

We
will never remain onlookers to the enemy’s desperate moves for
aggression; we will do all we can to defend the destiny of the country
and nation.

It
is a truth confirmed by history that nobody in the world can check the
advance of a people who have turned out for their cause of justice.

If
another undesirable war breaks out on this land as a consequence of
the unpardonable actions of the United States and its south Korean
puppets, they will sustain an ignominious defeat in the war and our
great nation will greet a bright dawn of their reunification.

(Only
Victory and Glory Will Be in Store for Us Who are Advancing under the
Unfurled Flag Bearing the Immortal Beaming Images of the Great Kim Il
Sung and Kim Jong Il 25 August 2012)

The
schools should educate their students to be stronger in revolutionary
faith and more faithful to obligation than anybody else. What is done
by dint of faith and obligation is the revolution, and it is thanks to
them that the life of revolutionaries shines. Revolutionary faith and
obligation are the most ennobling qualities of revolutionaries that they
should safeguard at the cost of their lives. By intensifying education
in faith and obligation in various forms and by various methods as
suited to the psychological features of the students by age, the
revolutionary schools should ensure that all of them would absolutely
trust and follow only the Party and the leader that have brought them
up, and become persons strong in faith and the sense of obligation who
will hold fast to the red flag of the revolution, the flag of the
glorious Party, even though they have to abandon their lives.

(The Sons
and Daughters of Revolutionary Martyrs Should Become the Reliable
Backbone of the Songun Revolution Who Would Stoutly Carry Forward the
Lineage of Mangyongdae, the Lineage of Paektu 12 October 2012)

The
security men should wage a fierce struggle against the enemies on the
invisible front as they did always", he said, adding:

"The
security men should make a revolution, remaining loyal to the party
to the last in any storm and stress", he noted, adding that to
this end, they should cherish unshakable faith like pure gold
remaining unburned even in flames.

He
underscored the need to intensify the struggle to decisively foil the
ideological and cultural poisoning and psychological warfare of the
enemies, while following their moves with vigilance.

(quoted by the Korean Central News Agency 6th October)

The
message highly praised the feats performed by the participants in the
meeting and all other security personnel, recalling that they have
reliably defended the lifeline of Juche revolution and stood guard
over the outpost of the class struggle, holding high the banner of
devotedly safeguarding the leader under the leadership of the WPK in
the glorious days and trying days.

A meeting of the Juche Idea Study Group of
England along with the Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
was
held to mark the 1st anniversary of the passing away of the great
leader comrade Kim Jong Il , and also the 21st anniversary of the
appointment of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander
of the KPA ,
the 95th anniversary of the birth of Madame Kim Jong Suk Mother of
Korea and the 1st anniversary of the appointment of the dear respected
Marshal Kim Jong Un as Supreme Commander of the KPA. It was well attended and the audience included members of the JISGE, ASSPUK and the UK Korean Friendship Association as well progressive social scientists and political activists.

The meeting observed a 2 minute silence in memory of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. The film "Korea Changing Sorrow Into Strength and Courage " was then shown.The chairman of the JISGE then spoke he said (excerpts)

The passing away of the
great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on December 17th 2011 was so
unexpected it was a great loss, a massive emotional wrench for the
the Korean people who loved and respected the great leader comrade
Kim Jong Il it was also a great loss for the Juche idea and Songun idea followers
of the world .

The great
leader comrade Kim Jong Il led the Korean revolution for nearly six
decades.

His Songun (army first
) revolutionary leadership began on the 25th of August 1960 and he
began working at the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
on the 19th June 1964.

During
his whole life he visited at least 14 290 units across the DPRK
covering a distance 669 844 km, which is the equal to
travelling around the world 17 times

Instead
of "opening up " and "reform " the great leader
comrade Kim Jong Il pursued a path of rugged independence. He took
many measures to revitalise the economy on the basis of economic
independence . On the 19th of June 1997 he wrote the immortal classic
work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National
Character of" the Revolution and Construction"
this was a militant anti imperialist manifesto against globalisation.
After the frustration of socialism in some countries the imperialists
and world bourgeoisie pushed ahead with the sinister scheme of
globalisation to enslave whole economies and obliterate national
cultures . Comrade Kim Jong Il wrote

"
Taking advantage of the trials which the cause of independence
for the popular masses is undergoing, the imperialists are now
working more blatantly than ever to obliterate the Juche character
and traits of other countries and nations and realize their
dominationist ambition. At the present moment, the independent
development of the country and nation is inconceivable and it is
impossible to prevent the people from falling to the lot of colonial
slavery again, apart from the struggle against the dominationist
machinations of the imperialists."

The
experience of the Korean revolution has proved beyond all doubt
independence is underpinned by armed force , by Songun. As respected
Marshal Kim Jong Un pointed out “Songun means our
independence, dignity and lifeblood “The great leader in
the 1990s administered Songun politics . Comrade Kim Jong Il On the
1st of January 1995 he visited the Takabasol(Dwarf Pine tree) army
post and declared declared that the DPRK was at the crossroads ,
that they could either live under independent socialism or become
colonial slaves of the imperialists (colonial slavery had become the
lot of many countries under the so-called New World Order of Bush.
Clinton and Blair). To defend independence and socialism the DPRK
needed to effect Songun politics , the revolutionary line of giving
priority to the army and modelling society on the revolutionary
soldier spirit. This was the only way to defeat imperialism and
defend independence. Songun is an embodiment of the Juche idea.

Independence
, Songun and socialism which the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il
consistently defended throughout his life are also the great legacy
that he was bequeathed . The image of the great leader comrade Kim
Jong Il shines brightly and he will be immortal in the hearts of the
Korean people as well the world people aspiring for independence and
socialism. We are fully confident
that the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un will follow in the
footsteps of the great
leader comrade Kim Jong Il leading the the DPRK victoriously along
the road of independence,
Songun and socialism.

The secretary general of the group who is also secretary of the Stoke On Trent branch of the JISGE said

KIM JONG IL's life began
in the battles for Korea's national and social liberation. KIM JONG
IL was born on February 16th, 1942, in the Paektusan Anti-Japanese
Imperialist Guerrilla Army Camp. His parents were the Great
Revolutionary Generals of Mount Paektu, KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG SUK.
Even as a child, KIM JONG IL worked in support of KIM IL SUNG in the
effort of nation building, after liberation on August 15th, 1945.

All of KIM JONG IL's
activities were devoted to the safeguarding and consolidating the
ideological and theoretical heritage of KIM IL SUNG. KIM JONG IL's
most outstanding contribution to the development of philosophy, was
the systematization of the Juche Idea into a comprehensive system.
The works of KIM JONG IL is a encyclopedia of theoretical
originality. KIM JONG IL's writings and essays have provided answers
to many complex questions concerning contemporary revolutionary
theory and practice. On February 19th, 1974, KIM JONG IL, proclaimed
the strategy of modelling the whole of DPRK society on the Juche
Idea. Modelling the entire society on the Juche Idea means advancing
the Korean Revolution with the Juche philosophy as the sole guiding
ideology, building and perfecting a socialist society on the basis of
the Juche Idea. Indeed, the integral ideology of
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism has been acknowledged by the progressive
academics and activists throughout the world, to be the leading
socialist thought of the 21st century.

KIM JONG IL saw that
the Korean people's happiness and prosperity as the foremost priority
of party and state activity in the DPRK. KIM JONG IL set the
strategic goal of building a great, prosperous and powerful socialist
country relying on the initiative and enthuthiasm of the Korean
people. Displaying the spirit of Kanggye, the people of the DPRK have
forward pressed with technical renovation in the industrial and
agricultural sectors. Employing such means as CNC equipment and
information technology, the socialist economy of Peoples Korea has
become more efficient.It was KIM JONG IL who supervised the
Juche-orientation and modernization of the DPRK's economic structure,
that the Korean people are now enjoying all the materials benefits of
socialism. The national wealth and social relations in the DPRK
belong to the Korean workers, peasants and intellectuals, and not to
the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and Transnational
corporations.

The most remarkable
success has been achieved by Peoples Korea in the area of socialist
culture under the leadership of KIM JONG IL. Socialist culture and
literature in the DPRK has reached the peak of human creativity. Many
figures involved in art and literature around the world, lavish
praise on Juche culture, calling it a model of humanistic and
revolutionary art and literature. KIM JONG IL molded a culture in the
DPRK which was profoundly socialist in content and national in form,
popular in style and refined in substance. In the DPRK, both the
structure and superstructure of society has become harmonized under
the banner of Songun.

referring to the launch of Kwangmysong -3 the speaker said"it is
entirely of the DPRK's own manufacture. The DPRK does not need
permission from the US or the honourable member for Harrogate to launch satellites"

A lecturer at the University of London said that recently
dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un had sent a letter to the Academy of
Social Sciences on the occasion of its 60th anniversary . The great
leaders comrade Kim Il Sung andcomrade Kim Jong Il had always attached great importance to social science. It is a key task to develop Juche social science. At present the intellectual and cultural life of imperialism is degenerate. The corporations are eating away at academic freedom.
The speaker said that the best way to remember the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is to study the Juche idea. The Juche idea overcome dogmatist and
idealistic conceptions which held back the scientific study . He explained how the
Juche idea was the ultimate idea for the liberation of humanity.
The general secretary of the New Communist Party spoke . He said that the DPRK and WPK are attacked by Right and Left revisionists as well the bourgeois media. He said that the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il articulated the essence of socialism in a simple way. He wrote very good works such as "On the Juche Idea" and "Socialism is A Science" . He made a concrete contribution to the reunification of Korea by holding the summit meeting with Kim Dae Jung.

The JISGE chairman referred to the successful launch of the Kwangmysong 3
satellite by the Unha 3 rocket of the DPRK. He said that in the
socialist DPRK rockets go up but in capitalist Britain only prices , rent and poverty go up! (this remark received rapturous applause from the audience. The launch of the Kwangmysong 3 using 100% DPRK resources was a great victory. Members of the audience said the DPRK succeeded in launching a satellite after 3 attempts whereas it took the USA and USSR
many attempts to launch a satellite and south Korea has failed to launch
a satellite. In socialist Korea rockets go up but in capitalist Britain only prices go up.

The speaker also said that December 24th is the 95th anniversary of the birth of Madame
Kim Jong Suk the anti Japanese heroine and mother of Korea He went on

Comrade Kim Jong Suk
brought up the young Kim Jong Il as a revolutionary and future
soldier and leader of Korea. She is truly the Mother of Korea. After
liberation from Japanese imperialism in 1945 she worked hard to build
a new democratic Korea. She always led a frugal life and worked day
and night. She inspired women to turn out in the struggle for a new
democratic Korea. She founded the Korean Democratic Women's Union and
accomplished the liberation of women from the double and triple
oppression of imperialism and feudalism. Meeting south Korean women
she gave guidance on Korean reunification and the south Korean
revolution She elaborated Juche orientated theories on the liberation
of women thereby smashing bourgeois, revisionist and opportunist
theories on women's emancipation.

The teachings of
Comrade Kim Jong Suk on the women's movement are a guideline for
progressive women the world over. Her teachings show how to avoid the
pitfalls of reactionary bourgeois feminism (fashionable in the
capitalist countries) which simply sets women against men. The
immortal communist revolutionary fighter comrade Kim Jong Suk is a
role model for socialist and communist women.

It was pointed out that December 24th is also the 21st anniversary of
the appointment of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as supreme
commander of the KPA and on December 31st it will be one year since dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un became KPA Supreme Commander

The KPA and Korean people
under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il faced
down the US imperialists when they clamoured over the nuclear issue.
The DPRK threw a nuclear thunderbolt of Songun at the imperialists
by successfully testing a nuclear device. The KPA smashed the
provocations of the south Korean puppets and US imperialists at
Yongphyong island thereby defending world peace and socialism. Thus
the 20 years of leader's Kim Jong Il's command of the Korean People's
Army were years of great achievements in which the KPA has been
strengthened greatly . Because of the decisive role of the
anti-imperialist military front there have been victories in other
fields such as the economy and culture The ASSPUK and JISGE rejoice
over these achievement.

Visiting the DPRK this
year in April and September I saw for myself the impressive military
parade on April 15th and in September I saw many military
achievements at the KPA Exhibition of Arms and Equipment. This were
the fruit of the 20 years of comrade Kim Jong Il's work as supreme commander of the KPA

The Songun
revolutionary cause of army leadership is now been continued by dear
respected Marshal Kim Jong Un supreme commander of the KPA. The KPA
will be totally victorious under the command of dear respected
Marshal

Kim Jong Un.

Dear Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was elected as supreme commander of theKPA by the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea on December . Since thenhe has given guidance to many KPA units including front line units . In August hevisited frontline units in the West Sea and gave the order for the final battle forreunification if the US imperialists and puppets provoked a war . Dear respectedMarshal Kim Jong Un is following in the footsteps of the great leaders generalissimoKim Il Sung and generalissimo Kim Jong Il.

A letter were adopted to the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.

There was a display of DPRK books. A picture of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il at Mt Chol was displayed along with the DPRK national flag.

The
Korean people, like other peace-loving nations of the world, do not
want a war, a synonym for all kinds of misfortunes and pains, calamities
and death.

However, the United States is going against the aspiration and wish of the Korean people.

It
illegally occupied the southern part of Korea 67 years ago and divided
its territory and people into two. Now it is hell-bent on starting a new
war in Korea.

This year alone it consistently built up tensions on the

Korean
peninsula by mobilizing for action deployment in south Korea the
military personnel and hardware from its mainland and overseas military
bases, while launching a series of war rehearsals targeted for the DPRK.

Typical
of them were the US-led war games Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, which
involved large troops over 200 000 strong and state-of-the-art war
equipment and were conducted in south Korea between late February and
April. The US and south Korean military authorities, in the disguise of
the exercises for defence or annual event, conducted military drills for
the DPRK-targeted nuclear preemptive strikes on the ground, in the air
or on the sea, such as landing and assault operations.

The
war hawks in the US and south Korea hauled into south Korea en masse
military hardware, such as surface-to-surface missiles, MLRS rockets,
M1-A2 Abrams tanks, Striker armoured vehicles, special mine-proof
armoured vehicles, and so on. Their reckless acts threatened peace and
security and further aggravated the tension on the Korean peninsula.

The
joint military exercise Ulji Freedom Guardian staged from August 20 to
31 was a north-targeted trial war through and through in scale and
nature. In the exercise were mobilized over 30 000 GIs and 56 000 south
Korean troops, hundreds of thousands of south Korean civilians, military
personnel of different countries, which had dispatched their troops to
Korea during the Korean war (June 1950–July 1953) under the cloak of the
UN Forces, and sophisticated military hardware. Prior to the start of
the exercise the US Secretary of the Army flew into south Korea,
examined the military preparations and made tours to the Panmunjom area,
reminding everybody of the US presidential envoy Dulles’ tour to the
area along the 38th Parallel on the eve of the past Korean war.

The
first stage of the military exercises was to examine the war
preparedness of the aggressive troops, and the second one to commence a
war based on closely thought-out war scenario—special warfare against
the supreme leadership, preemptive strikes on nuclear and missile bases,
“civil operations” prerequisite to occupying the northern half of
Korea, all these aimed at surprise attack against the DPRK.

The
US-led joint military exercises staged in all parts of south Korea are
nothing but a grave challenge to the all-people aspiration for peace and
stability on the Korean peninsula and also revelation of dangerous and
reckless attempt of aggressive war to plunge the Korean nation into the
holocaust of a nuclear war.

The US has so far repeatedly expressed that it has no hostile feelings toward the DPRK.

It
manifested to the world through the DPRK-USA Joint Communiqué signed in
October 2000, September 19 Joint Statement made public in the six-party
talks in 2005 and other agreements that it would recognize the
sovereignty of the DPRK, strive to coexist peacefully, and abandon its
acts of aggression and hostility against the DPRK.

However,
present reality shows that the United States is the main culprit in
undermining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and the root
cause, provoker of war.

Dialogue is incompatible with confrontation, and peace with war.

Nothing can conceal the true colours of the US, peace-wrecker and mastermind of war.

Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Signal achievements have been
registered in the field of public health of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea this year.
Typical of them is the establishment of the Breast Tumor Institute at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital.
Also,
telemedicine system was applied to hospitals throughout the country and
cardiovascular surgery developed on a higher level. Technical
renovations were carried out in many hospitals, making them equip with
up-to-date medical instruments.
In particular, many cataract patients underwent successful operations to regain their sight.
All healthcare institutions across the country carried on the Pentavalent vaccination among working people and children.
Mangyongdae
and Kanggye Koryo medicine factories were renovated on a more modern
basis and many medical apparatus factories updated.
This year, the
country organized a national meeting of public health workers, national
symposium on medical science and the 14th national exhibition of
scientific and technological achievements in public health to bring
about a radical turn in health service. -0-

Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Sweaters were supplied to children of kindergartens across the DPRK on December 24, the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's
assumption of supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army and the
95th birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk.Sweaters
produced by knitting mills in different parts of the country are of
various colors and patterns to cater for the mental peculiarities of
children.
The sweaters were supplied
to those in mountainous villages in the northern tip of the country and
areas near the Military Demarcation Line and even on isolated islands.
Children,
their parents, teachers and commercial service workers were greatly
excited at the solicitude shown by the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un and extended thanks to him. -0-

London December 26th Juche 101(2012)
The ASSPUK and JISGE issued the following statement on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the historic work "Let Us Further Strengthen the Socialist System of Our Country " by the great leader President
Kim Il Sung on the 25th of December.
The work "Let Us Further Strengthen the Socialist System of Our Country " was written as the speech outlining the issues around the promulgation of the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK . In the work the great leader President Kim Il Sung reviews the road to socialism travelled by the DPRK under the banner of the Juche idea. He explains the unique Juche-based policies at every such of the revolution such as the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution and the socialist revolution. The DPRK pursued policies that conformed with the realities of the country and met the demands and aspirations of the people . A people-centred Juche -based socialist system had been created as the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung statedUnder our Party’s wise guidance the
Government of the Republic has achieved great successes in the
revolutionary struggle and work of construction in the past years. It
has established the most advanced socialist system in this land where
exploitation and oppression prevailed before, and converted our backward
colonial agrarian country in a very short time into a socialist power
with its solid independent national economy and enormous defence
capacities. It has brought about a brilliant flowering and development
of science and culture and achieved great success also in the work of
revolutionizing and workmg-classizmg the whole of society. We have won
great victories in the socialist revolution and building of socialism
and risen to a new peak which lies on our way to socialism and
communism.

The essential advantages and superiority of the Korean-style Juche-based socialist system are fully outlined in the work . Under the socialist system the popular masses are the masters of everything and everything serves them.Under Juche socialism working people fully participate in the political life of the country. In the DPRK a worker can get elected to the Supreme People's Assembly. However in capitalist societies this is not possible as only the rich can stand for parliament. As the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung says
"The so-called “liberties” and “rights”
loudly advertised by capitalists are confined exclusively to the rulers
and exploiting classes to oppress and exploit the masses of the people;
the “democracy” they advocate is nothing but a means of camouflage to
cover up the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Under state provides all conditions for people's lives including stable employment and housing. This is very different to the state under the capitalist system which serves as a tool of oppression and exploitation against the working people.
The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung gives one of the most lucid and cogent explanations of the superiority of the socialist system that I have ever seen.

The
socialist system is the best social system, not only providing the
people with a happy life today but also promising them a brighter
future. Since all the fruits of labour in socialist society are used for
social progress and for improving the welfare of the working people,
increasing social wealth brings the people ever greater abundance and an
ever higher level of cultural life.

However,
in a capitalist society the handful of exploiters grow richer with each
passing day, whereas the working people making up the overwhelming
majority of the population become more and more impoverished and
miserable. A capitalist society is a society where “the rich get ever
richer and the poor get ever poorer,” the gulf between the exploiting
and the exploited classes growing daily; it is a living hell where the
working masses are impoverished and starved.

London 26th December Juche 101(2012)
The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK and the Juche Idea Study Group of England issuing the follow statement in support of the decision made to
institute the International Kim Jong Il Prize ;

We warmly applaud the creation of an International Kim Jong Il Prize announced on the 21st of December to mark the 21st anniversary of the appointment of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
The creation of the prize is a token of the deep respect of the world progressive peoples , Juche idea followers and Songun idea followers have for the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il the eternal chairman of the National Defence Commission who blazed the trail for human independence . Because ofhis great ideological and theoretical achievements in developing and enhancing the Juche Idea the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is held in high esteem by the progressive and revolutionary peoples of the world.
Also because of his role in defending socialism in the critical period when socialism had been frustrated in a number of countries the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is highly revered by the working people of the worldand the international communist movement. The Songun politics administered by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il led the DPRK to shining victory over imperialism and created a powerful mode of anti imperialist politics for the world.
Thus we Juche Idea and Songun idea followers on hearing the decision to institute the International Kim Jong Il feel the need to study the Juche idea and Songun idea more deeply and to redouble our efforts to propagate the great
ideology of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. We feel greatly encouraged by this
decision
ASSPUKJISGE

International Kim Jong Il Prize Council FormedPyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- The International Kim Jong Il Prize Council was formed recently. It is composed of prominent figures of political, social and academic circles of many countries. The council is based in New Delhi.

It adopted a decision on enacting the prize and the rules of its presentation. -0-

Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- The International Kim Jong Il Prize
was instituted reflecting the unanimous desire and aspiration of
progressive humankind to glorify the immortal feats and noble
revolutionary life of leader Kim Jong Il . The International Kim Jong Il Prize Council made public a decision to institute the International Kim Jong Il Prize on December 24, the 21st anniversary of his assumption of supreme commander of the Korean People's Army. The decision said that Kim Jong Il
was the great leader who devoted his whole life to the prosperity of
the country and the people's happiness and the peerlessly great man who
made immortal contributions to accomplishing the human cause of
independence with his outstanding idea and leadership.

He was an outstanding
thinker and theoretician and peerlessly political veteran who developed
in depth the immortal Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung
into the guiding idea in the era of independence, brought into full
bloom ideal society which guarantees the dignity of human beings and
their genuine life in the DPRK and encouraged the world people in their
drive to realize independence, it added.

The council institutes the International Kim Jong Il Prize to glorify the great feats he performed for global peace and security, progress and prosperity of humankind, it stressed.

The prize will be
awarded to prominent figures of political, social and academic circles
and businessmen of all countries who made tangible contributions to the
struggle for independence of the country

Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- The International Kim Jong Il Prize Council made public the following rules on awarding the International Kim Jong Il Prize in New Delhi on Monday: The International Kim Jong Il Prize
shall be awarded to the distinguished personages in political, social
and academic circles and businessmen who made distinguished
contributions to the struggle for independence of countries and nations,
the accomplishment of the cause of global independence and peace and
development of human culture. The prize shall be awarded by the decision of the council.

The diploma of the prize, gold medal and cup shall be conferred upon a winner of the prize.

The prize shall be awarded in principle on the occasion of the Day of the Shining Star, birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il . -0-